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Originally Posted by vintagecollect
IT HAS GOT TO BE NTSC backward compatible for this reason. Most will be reluctant probaly since just spent money for HDTV conversion. ANY standard will be abandoned if costs public too much/ not feasable anyways.
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"No one expects the public to junk the more than 30 million monochrome sets now in our homes just because color television is available..."
- W. H Buchsbaum, Corlor TV Servicing, 1955
Actually I believe HDTV is catching on MUCH faster in sales than color TV did, and color WAS backwards compatible.